The Greek Way

From the author of the classic Mythology, "a book of both cultural and critical importance" reveals ancient Greece through literature, philosophy, and art (The New York Times).

"Five hundred years before Christ. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpassed and very rarely equaled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world." —Edith Hamilton, The Gr...